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November 2023

  1. Fostering decent employment opportunities through youth entrepreneurship

    20 November 2023

    The Promoting the Global Development Initiative with a Focus on South-South Cooperation in Employment in ASEAN organized a panel discussion titled "Youth Entrepreneurship: Fostering Decent Employment Opportunities" at the National Career and Productivity Fair 2023 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to promote entrepreneurship development as a viable pathway for decent employment generation and a productive alternative for job seekers.

  2. Promoting the Global Development Initiative: South-South cooperation in employment in ASEAN

    07 November 2023

    The ProSSCE-ASEAN project is collaborating with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) of the People's Republic of China and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to promote South-South cooperation among ASEAN Member States in the areas of high-quality employment, public employment services, and entrepreneurship development.

October 2023

  1. Video: The melody of coffee - Vision Zero Fund project in Viet Nam

    16 October 2023

    Growing coffee is like a process of bringing art to life. Farmers sometimes face great odds in rhyming their seeds. Vision Zero Fund cares and shares the burdens with coffee farmers, especially on workplace safety and health on coffee farms. We keep them company to change their occupational environment for the better and more sustainable, like a humming melody of life.

  2. Improving safety and health at every step of the coffee supply chain in Viet Nam

    01 October 2023

    This video provides an introduction on the ILO Vision Zero Fund’s work to promote workplace safety and health on coffee farms in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam through training and collective action. In doing so, the project engages with national and international partners, including multi-national companies and NGOs. Farmers appreciate the training approach and share their learning and good practices for workplace improvements with other farmers in their community which promotes sustainability and scaling.

August 2023

  1. Just Transition in Viet Nam's chemical and pharmaceutical industries: Trade unions

    07 August 2023

    Shared roles and responsibilities of trade unions in times of a Just Transition from chemical and pharmaceutical industries in Viet Nam.

April 2023

  1. Viet Nam, ILO sign new Decent Work Country Programme 2022-26

    12 April 2023

    Viet Nam’s Decent Work Country Programme for the 2022-26 period was officially announced on 28 March 2023 in Hanoi.

November 2022

  1. The 17th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting

    28 November 2022

    The Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM) brings together representatives of governments, employers' and workers' organizations from Asia, the Pacific and the Arab states.

August 2022

  1. Video on good practices of ENHANCE Project

    12 August 2022

    This video captures and showcases key impacts of the USDOL funded ILO Project, Enhancing National Capacity to Prevent and Reduce Child Labour in Viet Nam (ENHANCE), under each of the project’s three project components: Capacity building; awareness raising and direct interventions.

July 2022

  1. Introduction of Vision Zero Fund Viet Nam project

    30 July 2022

    Manager of the ILO’s Vision Zero Fund Viet Nam project, Kristina Kurths, briefly explains what the project does to improve safety and health at every step of the coffee supply chain in Viet Nam. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany.

  2. Introduction of the New Industrial Relations Framework project

    27 July 2022

    Manager of the ILO’s New Industrial Relations Framework (NIRF) project, Phillip Hazelton, briefly explains what the project does in Viet Nam. The project is funded by the US Department of Labor.

  3. Decent work and the future of Viet Nam electronics supply chains

    15 July 2022

    Despite its high export values, Viet Nam’s electronics industry mainly focuses on low-value-added and labour-intensive outsourcing and assembly activities. To overcome these challenges , this key export sector needs an appropriate strategy towards sustainable development based on technological innovation, environmentally friendly production and ensuring labour rights.

  4. Forced or compulsory labour

    06 July 2022

    The video gives brief introduction of forced or compulsory labour and indicators of forced labour, reasons for abolition of forced labour and relevant international standards. It also highlights Vietnamese laws to enforce these international standards.

June 2022

  1. Effective regulations? Environmental impact assessment in the textile and garment sector

    27 June 2022

    Environmental regulations provide protection for both environmental assets and the livelihoods of communities that depend on these assets.

April 2022

  1. Occupational safety and health in agriculture: How to prevent accidents and diseases

    28 April 2022

January 2022

  1. Regulations and content on addressing minor employees in fisheries for guild fishing vessel owners and fishermen

    20 January 2022

    With support from ILO ENHANCE, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has produced a video to highlight the importance of preventing and eliminating child labour from production and processing activities among fishery enterprises and communities, promoting the enforcement of related regulations and requirements.

October 2021

  1. Gender equality in the fashion industry: A talk show with Jessica Minh Anh

    21 October 2021

    ILO Viet Nam talks to Vietnamese supermodel and fashion show producer Jessica Minh Anh on gender equality in the workplace.

September 2021

  1. Free the world of work from violence and harassment

    21 September 2021

    The workplace should be safe for everyone, everywhere. The ILO Convention No. 190 aims to end all forms of violence and harassment in the world of work, including gender-based violence. The Convention focuses on restoring dignity and respect for all.

July 2021

  1. Social health protection in Viet Nam: Things you should know

    05 July 2021

    Social health protection is affordable health insurance or government-funded health services.

  2. Viet Nam will enter a new exciting stage of development from now on

    01 July 2021

    In his last interview with the Vietnam Television, ILO Viet Nam Director Chang-Hee Lee emphasized that Viet Nam’s remarkable improvements in all areas of labour and social policies in the past few years are the result of a much longer process of reform and efforts of the country. He concluded his successful six-year term as the leader of ILO Viet Nam on 30 June 2021.

May 2021

  1. Development of Binh Duong Wood Lean Six Sigma Club

    28 May 2021

    On 27 August 2014, Binh Duong Wood Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Club was established and since then the LSS Club has brought together both enterprises that had participated in SCORE Training and enterprises that had not participated to sustain the improvement drive.